Coal-car



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COAL CAR. APPLICATION FILED APR. 2, 1919.

Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

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EUGENE r. KEPNEB, on HELENA, MONTANA. coat-can Application fi1ed April e,

T 0 allwko'm, it may concern.

Be it known that I EUGENE T. KEPNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Helena, in the county of Lewis and Clark and State of Montana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Coal-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention'relates to new and usefulimprovements in dumping cars and the principal object of the invention is to provide means wherebythe car may be tilted sidewise to discharge its loadQ Another object of the invention is to form the car of a plurality of sections, each sec tion being independent of the other sections and eachsection being capable of being dumped independentlyof-the other sections. i

The invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In describing my invention in detail, reference' will be had to, the accompanying These sides f are provided with large opendrawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the severa-l views, and in which Figure '1 ,is a side view of a car con- R structed according to my invention.

Fig. 2 is'an end view. F ig- 3 is a cross section Fig. 4' is a longitudinal section;

Fig. 5 is a detail view. v

In these Views, 1 indicates the base,sup-

ported by the usual trucks 2 At each endof'thebase arelocated upright frames 3 and similar frames are located intermediate theends of the base. These upright frames are" suitably braced interior rods. The upper ends of the frames support the roof 5 of the .car. Thisroofcons sts of the fiat central portion 'fi which is rigidly connected with the frames, and the inclined sides 5% ings closed by doors 16, which have'their' upper ends hinged to the edges of the flatportion 5 If desired the: sides may beomitted entirely and the doors made large enough to constitute, said'side's. The ends of the roof are closed-by the sheets 17 carried by the upper ends of the end frames 3.

e Specification of Letters Patent.

ieie. Serial No. 289,641.

cured to'the base 1, and a horiz ontal'shaft Patented Nov. 9; ieea.

7 is secured to the centers of said. springs and said shaft is rigidly connected with 1 the springs so as to be prevented from r0; tatio The car body is formed of a pluralityof y independent sections 8,' each of which-consists of the bottom 9 and the sides 10. The

top of each section is open. The underside ofth e bottom 9 of each section is secured to the shaft 7 in such a manner that said section may have rotary movement on said shaft. Collars 12 may be formed on the shaft to prevent thesections from moving len thwise of the shaft.

T o prevent the sections. from tilting I provide arms 13, pivoted at their lower ends to the upright frames and having their up per ends engaging in brackets l=l=securedto the bottoms ofthe sections. The pivot bolts pass through slots 13 i formed in the arms, "asshown in Figf 5; By pressing these arms to 'causethe'ni to rotate on the. pivot bolts they will be disengaged from the brackets so that the sections may be tilted. The sides of the sections 18.16 provided with doors 15. hinged at. their upper. ends sothat when the sections are'tilted'the doors will swing outwardly and thus permit-the load to discharge. Any'suitable means maybe used for locking the doors.

I prefer to make each section of greater width than its length so thatthe sections may be tilted with but slight effort.

. It willbe seen that the sections maybe quickly and easily filled througlf the doors in the roof and that the" sections can be quickly discharged by tilting to either side. As each section is tilted to one side its opposite side will strike the door 16 and raise the same so that the doors will not interfew with the tilting of the sections.

The springs must be high. enough to sup port the bottoms of the sections a'sufiicient distance above the base'to prevent said base from interfering with the tilting action.

' The tops of the sections project a slight distance above the lower edges of the roof so that said roof' 'will prevent/rain and snow from entering the sections. 1

It will also be seen that the sections can be filled and discharged independently of each other and from eitherside of the track,

' said frame and a body tiltably make changes in the construction and in i the scope of the appended claims.

I claim asmy invent on: 1. A dump car comprising a wheeled base, a frame on the base, a roof the horizontal portion of which is rigidlysupported by supported on the base under the roof.

2. A dump car comprising a wheeled base, upright frames'supported thereon, a roof supported by said frames, upwardly swinging doors forming portions of said roof and a body tiltably supported on the base under the roof.

3. A dump car comprising upright frames supported thereon, a roofsupported by said frames upwardly swing ing do ors forming portions of said roof, a

ported on the a- Wheeled base, I

near/ ee body tiltably supported onthe base under the roof and doors in the sides of said body and hinged at their upper ends.

4:. A dump car comprising awheel'ed base, upright "frames located on said base, a roof supported by the frames, upwardly swinging doorsiforming portions of said roof and a plurality of body sections tiltably supbase between the frames and arranged under the roof.

A dump car comprising a wheeled base, upright supporting frames thereon, a roof supported by said frames, hinged doors forming portions of the roof, springs located on the base between thetframe's, a longitudinally extending shaft carried by springs body sections pivotally connected with the shaft and arranged between the frames, and below the roof and 'means for normally holding-the sections against-tilting movement.

EUGENE r. KEPNEB.

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